Nigerian students enrolled in federally funded universities would not be able to attend classes since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was unable to come to a resolution to stop the strike.
Tuesday’s meeting between ASUU and the administration failed to produce a resolution to the strike.
As a result, the six-month-old lecturers’ strike at public universities is expected to continue.
The government-instituted Professor Nimi Briggs Committee and the striking academics met on Tuesday at the National University Commission in Abuja in the hopes of breaking the deadlock.
Members of the Briggs renegotiation committee did not present any new offers to the table, according to a top member of ASUU who requested anonymity and spoke to Channels Television.
Instead, the committee begged the academics to call off the strike, the ASUU source claimed, assuring them that their issues would be addressed in the 2023 budget.
The meeting, which began at 12 pm, reportedly lasted for about three hours without producing a resolution.
The union and the government have agreed to use the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as the platform for lecturers’ payments, according to ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke’s statement on Monday night. The strike will also be put on hold.
Osodeke, however, asserted that the government’s conversations were not real.
He said that once the test had been completed and the chief of staff had approved its implementation to cover the institution, “problems of IPPIS and UTAS have been resolved.